Motivational Quotes

Fear

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Fear

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Syrus, Publilius

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Austen, Jane

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Schuller, Robert H.

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

King, Billie Jean

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Ann Radcliffe

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Lorde, Audre

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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Only your mind can produce fear.

A Course In Miracles

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear is the biggest motivator.

Dixon, Bill

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.